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Released in 1958, Attack told of a wealthy heiress, fresh from a stint at a mental institution, who is turned into a giantess and then deals with her philandering husband and his no-good, money-grubbing floozy.—Borys Kit, HollywoodReporter, 9 Jan. 2026 Leppaluoi, their dad, is lazy and stays in the cave, and their mom, Gryla, is a giantess who seeks out naughty children to add to her stew.—Carlie Procell, USA Today, 20 Dec. 2025 Stewart herself is certainly no stranger to starring in movies that are a little off the wall; Love Lies Bleeding, famously, ended with (spoiler alert) what basically amounted to a giantess fantasy sequence.—James Factora, Them., 7 Oct. 2025 Moroney is standing on the shoulders of other giantesses, too, but combining some of their different qualities in an interesting way — as girly as Shania Twain on the surface level but at least somewhere on the same toughness scale that is topped by Miranda Lambert, too.—Chris Willman, Variety, 6 Oct. 2025 In the 1958 Hollywood movie, Attack of the Fifty Foot Woman, a giantess played by Allison Hayes squashed men like bugs until the town sheriff killed her.—Jane Smiley
june 20, Literary Hub, 20 June 2025 Maybe her fans didn’t recognize her because the performer is a giantess and the person is merely person-size.—Lauren Groff, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2024 Salerno plays 30 characters from inside a small box, ranging from a drunken couple in Las Vegas to a lonely giantess, a lost pope and the entire Greek army.—San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Mar. 2022